climate fiction

The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

by Amitav Ghosh  · 16 Jan 2018

climate change than mainstream literary fiction? This might appear obvious to many. After all, there is now a new genre of science fiction called ‘climate fiction’ or cli-fi. But cli-fi is made up mostly of disaster stories set in the future, and that, to me, is exactly the rub. The future is but one

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

by David Wallace-Wells  · 19 Feb 2019  · 343pp  · 101,563 words

we haven’t had a spate of novels in the genre he basically imagines into half existence and names “the environmental uncanny.” Others call it “cli-fi”: genre fiction sounding environmental alarm, didactic adventure stories, often preachy in their politics. Ghosh has something else in mind: the great climate novel. “Consider, for

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more to come, and that it is our doing. You wouldn’t have to do much in rewrites to Independence Day to reboot it as cli-fi. But, in the place of aliens, who would its heroes be fighting against? Ourselves? Villainy was easier to grasp in stories depicting the prospect of

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. Norton, 2009). The Great Derangement: Ghosh’s book (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016) was published with the vivid subtitle Climate Change and the Unthinkable. “cli-fi”: The term has gained currency only over the last decade or so, but examples of the genre—typically speculative fiction driven by climate conditions—date

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, more or less. Cormac McCarthy’s The Road is a bit of a different beast—a climate epic. But those who these days talk up cli-fi as a genre seem to mean something more…well, genre—for instance, Kim Stanley Robinson’s Science in the Capital trilogy and, later, New York

Ten Billion Tomorrows: How Science Fiction Technology Became Reality and Shapes the Future

by Brian Clegg  · 8 Dec 2015  · 315pp  · 92,151 words

a climate change theme at the moment, particularly for the young adult market, that it has been given a subcategory of its own, known as cli-fi. There is plenty to work on as a result of the dire warnings of the climate scientists. Take sea-level rise. If the entire Greenland

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of mechanical Chiao, Raymond The Chrysalids (Wyndham) Cities in Flight series (Blish) Clarke, Arthur C. on Hal predictions of space elevator and Clegg, Brian Cleverbot cli-fi climate change cloaking device light and military attempts at real world attempts Star Trek’s view problem with The Clockwork Man (Odle) cloning DNA and

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

by Naomi Klein  · 15 Sep 2014  · 829pp  · 229,566 words

also that immersing myself in the international climate justice movement had helped me imagine various futures that were decidedly less bleak than the post-apocalyptic cli-fi pastiche that had become my unconscious default. Maybe, just maybe, there was a future where replacing our own presence on earth could once again be

What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures

by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson  · 17 Sep 2024  · 588pp  · 160,825 words

the sciences. We should be learning about it in history class. We should be learning about it in English. There’s a growing realm of climate fiction. It should be covered in psychology. Climate grief is a real thing; we should be talking about it. Ayana: What would you say is the

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 disasters climate-driven relocation. See climate migration Climate Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST), 385 climate education, 200, 201, 235–36 See also climate communication/conversations climate fiction, 235–36 climate finance. See finance climate goodbyes, 372 climate journalism. See climate communication/conversations climate justice. See justice climate migration: disaster-related displacement, 251

Escape From Model Land: How Mathematical Models Can Lead Us Astray and What We Can Do About It

by Erica Thompson  · 6 Dec 2022  · 250pp  · 79,360 words

greenhouse gas emissions have already dangerously geoengineered our planet may make the prospect of deliberate intervention more palatable. Geoengineering is increasingly featuring in near-future climate fiction by bestselling authors like Kim Stanley Robinson and Neal Stephenson, and Integrated Assessment Models are essentially just a mathematical version of near-future

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climate fiction. If solar radiation management does become the next big thing, we will need to have thought about it carefully, ideally before the point that it

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Land, they become something more than just technical speculation. Just as fiction has the power to change how we think, so this mathematical version of climate fiction exerts a strong narrative pull on our political and scientific institutions. Climate quantification and financialisation Climate science – like most policy-relevant sciences – has become very

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rate of a few per cent a year, to infinity and beyond. I said above that these models are just mathematical versions of near-future climate fiction. But they are mostly not very compelling stories: they do not question today’s hierarchies or offer any moral reflection. That’s not surprising: as